Walsall-Basher

Thanks guys I'll have a butchers at it in the sun when I get home. Heatwaves are great!

I've bought some iridescent paint for a mini kit I got for my birthday. How many coats do I need before the black base coat goes on? I've done 2 so far and shell is still very transparent but with a light iridescent sheen. Is this correct?

I recently got a Novak 3S brushed/brushless esc, can run any turn brushed motor with the option of using up to 3S lipo cells. Think they're designed for short course trucks but working well in a touring car for stock racing. 6a bec too which is handy for using better servos

was pretty scary in a pug 205 1.9 gti too, i ended up going backwards round a roundabout once trying to snatch 2nd gear, those were the days

loved the bit with the dogs chasing and you can see them in the mirrors. omg giant puppies!

what would that be in other manufacturers weights? ive got some 30 and 35 wgt schumacher oil

and dont forget the soldering work, no point having a great handfling car if it dnfs in the finals!

I'm pretty new to all this toy car business so bit of a basic question I'm thinking about stripping down and rebuilding my 2nd hand trf415msx shocks. Think they're the kit springs so just wondering what a good starting point in shock oil weight would be. Obviously will be using new o rings and rebuilding as per instructions

its an amphibious buggy then?

Novaks website recommend their motors down to 8.5t for 2wd buggies with your gearing. Any lower turns you'll overheat it, lose your warranty and end up with a scrapped motor. I learned the cheap way about overgeared motors as I only fried 2 mabuchi 540s before I decided to look up final drive ratio on a search engine

a 2011 spec schumacher cougar sv mmmmmm

you need to check the ampdraw on your brushless system, its usually in the packaging somewhere, but at a guess i'd say 4.5t novak was pretty high. then lipo wise you take the capacity in mAh/1000 * C rating to get the ampage ie 4200mAh with a 40C rating would give you (4200/1000)*40=168amps not easy to find a lipo with these big numbers in a stick pack style but there are some on evilbay from HK, i just ordered one branded as a 'silverback'

What battery are you using with it? Would need a pretty big lipo with a equally large C rating I'd have thought?

1150 bearings are 11mm x 5mm x 4mm not all tamiya bearings are 4mm deep mind!

its funny reading about another new racer getting to grips with all the pitfalls that can and most likely will happen! i'll give you a tip from my many weeks of experience...get some brake cleaner (used on 1:1 motorbike brake discs) or some nitro engine cleaner (same stuff) and get all that rubbish off your new tyres, use some tough paper towel or an old pit towel. i thought my tyres were wearing down (looked like an F1 car as you say) but its really just matted fibre and rubber from driving dirty lines stuck all over your shiny new rubber. they'll look brand new after you get it all off. then get some tyre additive to cure that understeer!